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December 16th. Traditional Swedish Lab "Julbord".

December 14th. Christmas party at the department!

December 5th. Claudio Brozzoli gives a Stockholm Brain Institute seminar entitled "Peripersonal space" (12-noon to 1 pm at Tellus seminar room, Retzius väg 5).

December 2nd. Valeria Petkova defends her thesis entitled "Do I need a body to know who I am? Neural mechanisms of body ownership". External opponent: Prof. Michael Graziano (University of Princeton, USA).

December 1st. Michael Graziano (Unveristy of Princeton, USA) visits the lab and gives a lecture (4pm; title TBA).

November 16th. Laura Schmalzl gives a lunch seminar at the Karolinska Psychology unit "Manipulating the perceived position of limbs (and phantom limbs) using a full-body illusion" (12-noon and 1pm in the library (4th floor) at Fogdevreten 2).

November 15th. Hjärnkontoret airs a show at 16:45 on SVTV featuring several illusions filmed in our lab.

September 1st. Dr. Catherine Preston starts as a postdoc in the lab.

August 25th-26th. Dr. Ehrsson participates in the Alback Technology Forum and gives a talk at the "Frontier technologies-a gateway to the future" seminar, organized by the European Research Council (Chair ERC president Prof. Hedvig Nowotny)(Click here for photo).

August 17th. Our internal Wednesday lab sminar starts!

August 11th. Dr. Hugo Spiers, University College London, visits the lab and gives a departmental seminar. Link to his lab here.

July 14th. Prof. Dennis R. Proffitt from University of Virginia, USA, visits the lab and gives a seminar. Link to his work here.

July 12th. Björn van der Hoort starts as a research student in the lab.

June 26th - 30th. The HBM 2011 conference at Québec City, Canada. We have three poster presentations (Brozzoli, Bergouignan, & Petkova), one slide presentation (Bergouignan) and one symposium (Ehrsson; click here).

June 17th. New paper in Current Biology identifies neural correlates of full-body ownership. Click here for the PDF.

June 15th. New publication about near-personal space is coming out in The Journal of Neuroscience. Click here for the PDF.

June 15th. Lab photo taken!

Pictured here from left to right: Henrik Ehrsson, Andreas Kalckert, Alexander Skoglund, Sofia Fröman, Loretxu Bergouignan, Hiske van Duinen, Laura Schmalzl, Arvid Guterstam, Claudio Brozzoli, Malin Björnsdotter, Giovanni Gentile (Not shown: Valeria Petkova and Christopher Berger).

June 10th - August 22nd. Erik Thomke and Zakaryha Abdulkarim conduct summer interships in our lab as part of the Karolinska Research Preparatory Course for medical students ("LÄFO").

May 30th. The New York Times link and Science Magazing link report on the "Being Barbie" illusion.

May 27th. Karolinska Institute's Press and Reuters come to film the "Being Barbie" illusion. Click here to see some of the footage on YouTube.

May 25th to May 28th. Henrik Ehrsson participates in the Alfred Nobel Symposium "Machines, Molecules, Minds" organized by the Nobel Foundation.

May 25th. New paper published in PLoS One: "Being Barbie: the size of one's own body determines the perceived size of the world." (Van der Hoort, Guterstam, & Ehrsson, 2011; download it from Publications). May 20th. Arvid Guterstam give a public talk at Forskning & Hälsa i Kungsträdgården.

May 13th. Valeria Petkova gives an oral presentation at the 2011 NIH Karolinska Institute Graduate Partnership Program in Neuroscience Symposium. For more info go to click here.

May 9th. Henrik gives a talk at Neuroimage Nord (director: Christian Buchel), Hamburg, Germany

May 6th. Arvid Guterstam and Valeria Petkova give oral presentations at the concurrent session 28 'Body Consciousness' at Towards a Science of Consciousness Conference at Stockholm University (click here). Henrik Ehrsson gives a lecture at the same conference (click here).

April 14th. Offical lab anthem announced The Gospel of the Rubber Hand (text & music Ola Hermansson). To listen to the song click » mp3

April 12th - 13th. Henrik Ehrsson give a talk at the Social Brain symposium at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge UK. For more information visit click here.

April 2nd to 5th. Loretxu Bergouignan, Laura Schmalzl, and Henrik Ehrsson gives presentations and the Cognitive Neuroscience meeting in San Francisco. Click click here.

April 1st. New paper published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (Schmalzl & Ehrsson 2011; download it from Publications).

March 6th. A new paper is published in Frontiers of Psychology: Petkova VI, Khoshnevis M and Ehrsson HH (2011) The perspective matters! Multisensory integration in ego-centric reference frames determines full-body ownership. (download it from Publications).

March 1st. Reuters visits the lab and film the three-arm illusion. To see the clip click here click here.

February 23rd. New publication in PLoS One on owning of a third arm: Guterstam, Petkova and Ehrsson. 'The illusion of owning a third arm'. Read the press release here click here or check out the Scientific American report here click here .

February 23rd. New publication in PLoS One on owning of a third arm: Guterstam, Petkova and Ehrsson. 'The illusion of owning a third arm'. Read the press release here click here or check out the Scientific American report here click here .

February 20th. Henrik Ehrsson gives the lecture "Cognitive Neuroscience of Body Self-Perception" at the AAAS meeting in Washington as part of the seminar "Molecules to Mind: Challenges for the 21st Century". For more details visit click here.

February 8th. Dr. Catherine Preston (University of Nottingham) visits the lab and give a seminar "When is our body not our body?".

February 1st. Henrik Ehrsson gives a lecture at Collège de France as part of a seminar series organized by Stanislas Dehane. For more details visit click here.

January 19th. Dr Steffen Landgraf (Humboldt University Berlin, Germany) visits the lab and gives a seminar entitled "Spatial Cognition and Psychopathology - A Dimensional Model"

January 17th. Malin Björnsdotter starts as new postdoc, and Sofia Cruz-Ferreira Fröman starts a six months master project in the lab!

January 9th to 16th. FENS Winter-school in Obergurgl organized by Lemon and Rizzolatti. Brozzoli, van Duinen and Kalckert and Ehrsson participates. For more details check go here click here.

**** 2010 ****

December 17th. Lab Christmas Smörgåsbord.

December 14th. Department Christmas Party!

December 10th. ÔHow we come to experience that we own our bodyÕ seminar at Advanced Telecommuniction Research Institue International (ATR) Brain Information Communication Research Laboratory Group, Hikaridai Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto, Japan.

December 8th. New fMRI study on multisensory integration in the premotor and intraparietal cortex published in Journal of Neurophysiology (Gentile, Petkova, Ehrsson 'Integration of visual and tactile signals from the hand in the human brain: An fMRI study').

November 23rd. Henrik Ehrsson gives the lecture "Brain mechanisms of body ownership" at Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris as part of a symposium devoted to cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology ("Journée Jean-Louis Signoret").

November 13th - 17th. Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego. We have two presentations. Valeria Petkova will present her poster "My perspective matters: The feeling of ownership of an entire body depends on the visual first-person perspective" (Poster presentation nr. 93.3 at HHH30, Session from 13:00 to 17:00 on Saturday 13th. Presentation time is 15:00 to 16:00). Giovanni Gentile has an oral presentation "Multisensory integration and the space near the hand: an fMRI study" (Sunday Nov 14th, Session is 125 Multisensory interactions, between 08:00 and 11:15 am, his talk is 09:45 and 10:00)

October 29th. Ehrsson gives keynote lecture at Copenhagen Neuroscience day. link click here.

October 28th. Valeria Petkova give seminar at Brain Imaging Center at Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main. Title: Do I need a body to know who I am? Perceptual and neural mechanisms of body ownership.

October 14th. Chris Berger starts a six month research student project in our group.

September 26th - October 1st. Body representation workshop in Ascona, Switzerland: "Body Representation in Physical and Virtual Reality with Applications to Rehabilitation". We give one lecture (Ehrsson) and present three posters (Brozzoli, Guterstam & Schmalzl). Lauras poster gets an award as best presentation at the meeting!. For link click here click here.

September 8th - 9th. Stockholm Brain Institute retreat at Nynäshamn.

September 7th. The Brain, Body and Self Laboratory meets the artists Lundahl & Seitl for a art-and-science performance at the National Gallery in Stockholm. Here is the link to Lundahl & Seitl click here.

September 1st. Hiske van Duinen starts her postdoc in our lab!

July 7th. Mini-symposium on body-ownership at 7th Forum of European Neuroscience (FENS 2010) in Amsterdam. Speakers are Henrik Ehrsson, Olaf Blanke, Patrick Haggard and Amir Amedi.

June 22nd-26th. The 4th International conference on cognitive science', Tomsk, Russia; Henrik Ehrsson gives a keynote. link click here.

June 16th - 19th International Multisensory Research Forum in Liverpool, UK. Our lab had five presentations at the meeting. Claudio and Giovanni had two oral presentations, Arvid and Andreas had poster-presentations and Henrik had a talk in the symposia on the multisensory body representation (16th) with Amedi, Aglioti, Shore and others. link click here.

June 6th-9th The 'Enlighted Brain Nobel symposium' on consciousness at the Karolinska Institute. Ehrsson gives a talk. Click » pdf

May 7th. Ehrsson gives invited lecture and SweCog, the Swedish national graduate school in Cognitive Science link click here.

May 4th. As part of the SBI scientific review Professors Mark Hallett (NIH, USA) and Ann Graybriel (MIT, USA) visits the lab. We exposed Ann to an exciting new illusion! For picture click » jpg

April 28th. Ehrsson gives talk at the Colloquium at Institute of Cognitive Science, Osnabrück, Germany. link click here.

April 20th. The lab moves and expands! We move to the A3 corridor of the Retzius laboratory and our lab space will double (to 160 sq metres). We will get a larger virtual reality room, larger behavioral testing room, new neurophysiological lab with state-of-the-art TMS system, and three separate rooms for fellows.

April 15th. Henrik Ehrsson gives an invited lecture at the 'Towards a Science of Consciousness Conference in Tuscon, USA. link click here. For picture click » jpeg

April 6th. Laura Schmalzl starts as postdoc in the lab.

March 18th Department of Neuroscience retreat.

March 3-6th. Ehrsson participates in the Human Frontier Science Programme "Frontiers 2010" meeting (Strasbourg, France). To see programme click » pdf

March 4-5th. Presenccia final review-meeting in Barcelona.

February 11th. Henrik Ehrsson gives a lunch seminar at the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institutet (1200-1300).

February 8th. Björn van der Hoort starts his 6 month internship with us.

February 2nd. Henrik Ehrsson gives a lecture at the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (Leipzig, Germany) "How we come to experience that we own our body" link click here.

January 28th. Hedvig Zetterberg joins the group to do a 6 months internship.

**** 2009 ****

December 17th. "Lab-julbord".

December 16th The Neuroscience Department Christmas party!

December 3rd. Lecture given by Henrik Ehrsson at the Department of Neuroscience and Physiology at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

November 27th. Ehrsson gives keynote lecture at Conference on Multilevel Systems Analysis and Modeling of Somatosensory, Memory, and Affective Maps of Body and Objects, Venice, Italy. ink click here.

November 11th. A new postdoc confirmed to join our group in sep 2010. Hiske van Duinen is an expert on motor physiology and fMRI and is currently working with Prof.Simon Gandevia (Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Randwick, Australia).

October 29th. Valeria Petkova's half-time PhD seminar (1000-1200, Tellus B2:2, Retziuslab). Also, Lars Nyberg (Umeå University) visits our lab and give a departmental lecture (1500, Hillarpsalen) "Ongoing brain-imaging studies in the Betula Project: Within-person evidence for neural reorganization in relation to cognitive decline"

October 20th. BBC broadcast a new TV-production about consciousness (BBC Horizon, BBC2). The program features the out-of-body illusion and the body-swap illusion click here.

October 16th. Three new members of the lab confirmed! Dr. Claudio Brozzoli (INSERM, Lyon, France) and Dr. Laura Schmalzl (Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Sydney) are two postdocs joining the group in early 2010, and Dr. Alexander Skoglund (Centre for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems, Örebro University) is taking up a position as reseach engineer.

October 5th. Dr. Hiske van Duinen visits us and gives a seminar entiteled "Motor control of the human hand" (1230-1330, Retzius, Tellus B2:2). Hiske is currently based in Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Randwick, Australia.

October 3rd. Giovanni Gentile gives an oral presentation at the ESMRMB (European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology) 2009 CONGRESS, Antalya, Turkey. The title of the abstract is "Influence of sound localization on BOLD-signal in early auditory areas: a 7T fMRI study"

October 1st. Dr. Loretxu Bergouignan (CNRS Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, France) starts her postdoc in our group. Dr. Bergouignan is an expert on first person and third person perspectives in memory and cognition (for a recent publication click » pdf

September 29th. Dr. Ehrsson gives a departmental talk at the Central Institute of Mental Health, Department of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience, Mannheim, Germany. Host is Prof. Herta Flor. click here

September 25th. Henrik gives a public lecture at Researchers Night ("Forskarfredag") at Kulturhuset, Stockholm
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September 24th. Henrik gives a keynote lecture at the annual meeting of the Swedish Brain Power consortium; link click here.

September 23rd. Henrik Ehrsson gives a departmental seminar at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology (Karolinska)

September 17th. Jen Chuen Hsieh and Li Fen Chen from Institute of Brain Science, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan, visits our lab!

September 15th. Special day about illusions of will and choice blindness! Petter Johansson (Watanabe lab at the University of Tokyo), Lars Hall (Dept. Psychol. Harvard) and Andreas Olsson (Karolinska), original members of the "Lund Choice Blindness Group", visit our lab and present their latest studies!

September 8th. New publication in PLOS ONE: Petkova & Ehrsson "When right feels left: referral of touch and ownership between the hands". To read the paper go to this link click here.

September 7-8. The Stockholm Brain Institute retreat at Sandhamn. Invited keynote speaker is John O'Doherty (Caltec, USA) and Torsten Wiesel is special guest. Valeria gives oral presentation "Illusions of entire bodies". For photos and info check out this SBI Newsletter » pdf or look at the programme » pdf

26th Aug. Dr. Laura Schmalzl (Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia) visits our lab. She will also give a seminar entitled "Visual face and body perception: Neuropsychological and neuroimaging investigations".

1st Aug. Mr Giovanni Gentile starts his PhD training in our lab. Giovanni has a BSc in Engineering Physics (Turin, Italy) and a master in Medical Imaging from the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden).

July 14th. Dr. Claudio Brozzoli (INSERM, Lyon, France) gives seminar "Multisensory processing for perception and action".

July 9th. The lab's work on full-body illusions is featured on American CNN. To see the clip click here.

June 29th - 2 July. Valeria Petkova presents her new study ("When right feels left: referral of touch and ownership between the hands") at the 10th International Multisensory Research Forum in New York. To check out the event click here click here.

June 16th. Arvid Guterstam starts a 6 week summer research project on body ownership. Arvid is a medical student at the Karolinska.

June 12th. Henrik Ehrsson is invited to give keynote lecture at the Toward a Science of Consciousness 2009 conference, Hong Kong. link click here.

June 2nd 4th. Henrik Ehrsson speaks at the HFSP 20th Anniversary - 9th Awardees Annual Meeting in Tokyo Japan. Click here click here.

May 25th. Andreas Kalckert starts his PhD in our lab.

May 22nd. Dr. Ruthger Righart (Neurology and Imaging of Cognition Laboratory, University of Geneva) visits our lab and present his research in a semiar 'Top-down activation of fusiform cortex without seeing faces in prosopagnosia'

May 8th. Henrik Ehrsson gives a lecture at the annual NIH-KI GTPN (Graduate Training Partnership in Neuroscience) Research Symposium, NIH, Bethesda

May 4th. Dr. Loretxu Bergouignan (CNRS Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, France) visits our lab and give an open seminar 'Visual perspective & mental time travel: behavioural, MRI and fMRI studies'

April 22nd. Henrik Ehrsson gives keynote lecture at the FET09 conference in Prague. For details click click here.

April 17th. Prof. Keiji Tanaka (Riken, Japan) visits our lab. click
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April 16th. Henrik Ehrsson gives an public lecture (in Swedish) at the Karolinska Hospital Solna "Lämna din kropp!". Download the poster as pdf:
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April 3rd. Dr. Marta Garrido, Dept Psychology, UCLA, USA is visiting our lab and gives a seminar 'Dynamic causal modelling of evoked brain responses: a predictive coding account of unpredictable events'

March 30th. Dr. Corrado Corradi Dell'Acqua, SISSA/ISAS, Trieste, Italy, visits the lab and gives a talk entitled "The Left Posterior Parietal Cortex Processes Spatial Relations among Body Parts".

March 20th. Henrik gives a plenary lecture at the annual HU Research Symposium (HURS) at University of Linköping.

March 16th. Dr. Jungang Qin, Department of Psychology, Peking University, visits our lab and gives a seminar 'How Human Make Judgments about Physical and Social Events------Some Examples from Social Neuroscience Approach'.

March 2nd. The president of the Karolinska Prof Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson visits our department and our lab. She will test the body-swapping illusion!

March 6th. Valeria organizes the "Day of Variety" at our Department. Contribute for this Departmental day with your own paintings, photography pictures, movies, music, singing, writings, cooking, handcrafting, knitting, sewing, dancing etc, etc, etc. There will also be party&pub later!

February 27th. New study published in Perception (Ehrsson 2009 "How many arms make a pair? Perceptual illusion of having an additional limb").

February 26th. Dr. Silke Atmaca visits our lab and gives a seminar 'Representation of actions that have yet to take place' click here.

February 19th. Two new job oppertunities in our group! One PhD position and postdoc position! For further details click here.

February 18th. Our recent paper in Brain [Upper limb amputees can be induced to experience a rubber hand as their own] has been selected for Faculty of 1000 Medicine. click here.

February 17th. Andreas Kalckert has accepted a four year PhD position in our group. Andreas will start in the early summer. He is currently finishing his master thesis in Cognitive Science at the University of Vienna, and has a B.Sc in neuroscience from the University of Cologne. Andreas has previously conducted interesting experiments on motor learning using TMS and behavioral experiments on synaethesia click here.

February 2nd. Ms Mehrnoush Khoshnevis joins the group to conduct a 6 month research project.

January 29th. Ehrsson gives talk at BILDLAB, Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset Huddinge

January 21st. New Scientist report on the finding that amputees can be induced to experience the rubber hand illuson. Click this link to read the report (and watch their video) click here.

January 14th. Henrik Ehrsson gives an invited lecture in the ABIM conference, Champéry, Switzerland For further details click here.

**** 2008 ****

December 23rd. Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

December 19th. Valeria's "Body-Swapping" paper is featured on Faculty of 1000 Biology. Click link click here.

December 16th. Neuroscience Department Christmas Party!

December 2nd. The "Body-swapping" paper is published in PLOS ONE. The story is featyres in New Work times and National Geographic TV. To see the video produced by Associated Press:click here.

December 2nd. Ms Jill Leiser joins the group as laboratory coordinator.

November 25th. Dr. Ehrsson gives a public seminar at the DANA centre in London, UK. For further details click here.

November 17. Ms. Valeria Petkova presents her poster "Body-swap illusion" at the Society for Neuroscience, Washington DC, USA. Her poster was covered by American Scientist ("Your Body is Mine", 17th Nov by Bruce Bower) Read article

November 12th. Dr. Ehrsson gives a talk at the Low Temprature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.

November 7th. Dr. Michael Harvey joins the group to work on a multisensory integration project using voltage sensitive dyes and multiunit recordings.

November 4th. Body-swapping becomes a reality! Valeria Petkova gets her first paper accepted (Petkova, V.I. and Ehrsson, H.H. From where you standing: perceptual illusion of body-swapping. PLoS One, in press, 2008).

November 3-4. Dr. Ehrsson gives a key-note lecture at PRESENCE and the Science of Virtual Reality Meeting at the Technion in Haifa, Israel. For further details click here.

October 24th. Dr. Ehrsson gives key-note lecture at NOV2K conference, Novum Research Park in Flemingsberg,Stockholm. For further details click here.

October 19th. Amputees can be made to experience the rubber hand illusion! A new study accepted in Brain (Ehrsson et al. 'Upper limb amputees can be induced to experience a rubber hand as their own' Brain In Press)

October 2nd. Dr. Ehrsson gave a talk at The Oxford Autumn School in Cognitive Neuroscience ("Multisensory mechanisms of body ownership"). For further details click here.

From October 1st we are moving to the Department of Neuroscience and setting up our lab here.

September 27th. Dr. Ehrsson gave a presentation at Dick Passingham's Festschrift, Dept. Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford. For further details click here. For picture of the event click » pdf